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Can a program be written which when run is itself conscious?\n   * The running program, not some product that *results* from the program having run (such as the brain) must be conscious.\n   * Running the program in the human mind and double-dipping to claim your program is conscious, or similar gimmicks don't count. \n   * Definition of conscious: “what we have\". This was a road block for Turing, who needed a test of whether an object was conscious. Here, we are wanting a proof.\n2. Can a behavior be shown to result from an evolved module rather than a culture?\n   * Tinbergen proposed “emerges under all cultures\" is one such, rightly awarded a Nobel to Tinbergen, but requires testing all cultures.\n3. Conversely, can a behavior be shown to be cultural rather than resulting from a module?\n4. Devise a formal test for whether a behavior is innate?\n6. 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